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Goal setting sheet for staff to fill out. This is for Professional Development.

Personal Questions applications:
Internet4Classrooms
TechnologyTrainingteam
Tech4learning (fee based)
Teach for Tomorrow (It takes 24 hours to register log on, great resource. May be able to type in Remc/Remc for demo purposes.)
Atomic Learning (Click on Goodies, Free Demos, Free Demo page. Great ideas! :) )

Learning about the Digital Still Camera

Digital Camera
www.sonystyle.com/digitalimaging/mavica.htm The Mavica digital camera saves to floppy disk and more. It also takes great close-ups, creates MPEG movies, and instant slide shows. The new models support memory sticks for more storage. (Ideas: get a cable to back of VCR, can record onto video. Use auto focus in video=great for visual in projector/TV)
What to do with the pictures? PhotoAlbum is a free add-in program making it easy and fast to get pictures from your hjard disk drive, scanner, or digital camera into a Microsoft PowerPOint presentation. iPhoto lets you import our pictures from your digital camera, organize them, edit and improve them, and share them in a number of different ways. Both can be downloaded for free. Can order book online for $25.00. Great Christmas gift. Kodack.com can do this as well. Follow any of these to get this cool idea activated!
office.microsoft.com/downloads/2000/album.aspx
www.apple.com/iphoto/
www.office.microsoft.com/downloads

Learn how to run the scanner.

[[file:///C:/Documents and Settings/Angie Vandewarker/Desktop/icons/0506/Curr/scanner.htm|How do I run the scanner?]]
Marilyn Western's Web Page (She, too, is a teacher. Click Just for fun, Window Washer, pop up stopper, to eliminate pop up windows. Wouldn't this be a great resource for your students and their parents?)

How can you use Excel in the classroom?

SchoolKiT Enactz is a collection of quality learning modules that help make integrating technology across your curriculum fun and meaningful. (For example: In PowerPoint scramble the order of a process, then have students assemble. In Excel, turn off row/column, grids, and activate the comment option so that they may appear as "hot spots." Great for labeling objects! Viewers can download this application FREE!

How can Palms be used in the classroom?

Would you like to know more about PalmPilots? Palm, HandSpring &Sony based computers are electronic planners and more. A document camera replaces an overhead, attaches directly to a projector/TV, to project documents or objects (such as a Palm.) PDAs and document cameras available at remc pricing at: remc.org/avbid/project.html
www.palm.com
www.handspring.com
www.sonystyle.com/micros/clie/
www.elmousa.com

Would you like a hands on means of integration? Maybe clay is your answer!

Working with clay models, camera, and computer - students bring their stories to life in the form of an animated movie. Clay animation kid: software, materials, and manual: $65
www.tech4learning.com
Idea: Have students create a storyboard, and then put the pictures together. Possibly, put them into PPT with automatic timing to get a movie affect.


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Creating Curriculum Materials:

nicenet.org-easy to create, can manage more than one class, students enroll themselves, email, discussion groups
Discoveryschool.com-free lesson plans
wizard.hprtec.org/-Web Worksheet Wizard
puzzlemaker.school.disvoery.com-Puzzlemaker
products.hprtec.org/poster-The Student Project Page
school.discovery.com/teachingtools/worksheetgenerator/index.html-worksheet generator
webservices.adobe.com/banner-Create a Banner at Adobe
www.kidbibs.com/awards.htm-ALA Award Maker
Teacherweb.com
www.teach-nology.com/web_tools/materials-teacher resources for teaching technology
http://www.pics4learning.com/ -great resource for lessons that are Technology based




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Creating Student Activities:

www.kn.pacbell.com/wired/fil/-Filamentality
www.filamentatlity.com/wired/fil-A Tour in Process
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Professional Development Resources

www.glef.org Great for classrooms, educators, and communities!
www.ali.apple.com/ Gives state standards for every lesson
www.fno.org: Assessment, Curriculum, information literacy, Internet Policy, and much more
www.pcteachit.com Neat magazine with teaching resources-right on the computer!



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Sharing Pictures:

Tech4learning.com-pictures available for download (great for reports!)
www.photoworks.com-place to upload and share photos
www.ofoto.com-place to upload and share photos

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Using Digital Cameras Across The Curriculum

Science
Catch a Constellation – Sample Project from Ruth Grillo’s Teaching with Digital Cameras book.
http://www.tech4learning.com/pdfs/constellation.pdf
Plant Growth - Students will create a clay animation which demonstrates the stages of a plant’s growth from seed to maturity.
http://www.tech4learning.com/ClayKit/downloads/plantgrowth.pdf
Math
Fun with Fractions - Students will learn about fractions by manipulating images to represent mathematical concepts.
http://www.pics4learning.com/pics/lessons/lesson/holiday_fractions.html
Living Fractions - Students will create a clay animation which demonstrates the concept of fractions and how these are written in mathematical terms.
http://www.tech4learning.com/ClayKit/downloads/fractions.pdf
Language Arts
Personification Poetry - Students write a poem which personifies something. They will then create a clay animation to explain or enhance their poem and present this "performance" piece to the rest of the class.
http://www.tech4learning.com/ClayKit/downloads/poetry.pdf
Social Studies
Persuasive and Presidential Writing -Students will write a persuasive piece of writing about who, if possible, would be a suitable president to carve into Mt. Rushmore.
http://www.pics4learning.com/pics/lessons/lesson/persuasive.html
Rainforest Conservation Cards and Comics -Students will create postcards with persuasive text and images on the importance of conserving natural resources.
http://www.pics4learning.com/pics/lessons/lesson/conservation.HTML


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Using WWW Resources

www.trackstar.hprtec.org/ Develop a track, or borrow someone else's.
http://webservices.adobe.com/banner/ Try new banners, visit Adobe and make a banner like none others!

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Web Cams

www.michiguide.com

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Multimedia in the Regular Classroom (Enhancers!)


Pics4Learning lessons – All of these lessons use digital camera and/or digital images in unique and engaging ways. You will find lessons for math, science, language arts, and social studies.

http://www.pics4learning.com/pics/lessons/index.html
Clay Animation lessons – All of these lessons use clay animation to enhance student in unique and engaging ways. You will find lessons for math, science, language arts, and social studies. http://www.tech4learning.com/ClayKit/projects.html

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